BLE mesh network...

[Prasad Dabak]

Hello,

I am wondering if you have any plans for implementing a Softdevice that supports BLE mesh network on nRF52832 in near future?

If not, if I were to implement it myself, is Softdevice S132 sufficient for me so that I can implement a mesh on top of this? Can this device act as peripheral to one and central to others at the same time?

Any advice/pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. -Prasad

[f.salvatore]

Yes, i think it's absolutely possible to implement a mesh network with SoftDevice S132 but in the past, in my business, we have implemented a very simple mesh topology using BLE connectionless systems, like advertising. Just for hint, you can, for example, use Manufacturer Custom Data fields of advertising packet to send your message using a simple header to notify receivers if message was fragmented, the message len etc...

Obviously BLE connectionless systems does not allow to transfer a big amount of data, but if your goal is to send small data (up to 50-60 bytes, for example) i think that advertising is good enough.

[Susheel Nuguru]

I second on this, you can use S132 to have upto 8 connections, it is definitely possible to create mesh topology with it.